Showing posts from May, 2016
It's 2016 and it therefore must be time for *another* Co-op rebranding exercise. After all, the last was in 2009, so it must be overdue. So, what's happened? This spring, the Co-op announced that it was to revert near enough to its 1968 C…
Open again this month after it closed in April 2015 was the Olde Cross Keys. It was on the market as a possible conversion to a private home. Dan Thomson, late of The Farmers and the Brookhouse Mill has it, with a little help from his parents. M…
A strong song, a distinct lack of screeching (as elsewhere in the contest) and a confident act on the night by convincing singers weren't enough to propel Joe & Jake anywhere near the top of the Eurovision/Ewrofiswn leader board. They came 24t…
Reports from staff at Ysgol Brynhyfryd suggest that, apparently, when the new head was appointed there, he wasn't employed as the head of a secondary in Birkenhead, as was believed. He'd left. If true, presumably, the governors knew this. He w…
It's good to report that Café Rh reopens again this morning. It closed at Christmas. It's taken this long to get a new tenant. It wasn't easy and no one came forward so the county council has let its own catering people run it. The counci…
We didn't see this coming. Dan Thomson who for seven months from August 2014 ran The Kitchen at the Farmers Arms —and the ordinary yet tasty food could not come more highly recommended—is to re-open the Olde Cross Keys. Just when we have been …
